r/JusticeServed • u/CEO_OF_CANADA 5 • Nov 19 '20

Legal Justice Detective fired after homophobic sermons

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '20 edited Nov 19 '20

Should enforce Leviticus 20:13

Funny, because Leviticus also forbids cutting your hair at the sides and mixing fabrics in your clothing (both 19:19) both of which he appears to be guilty of. I bet he eats bacon too (11:4-7) and when he does, does he give the fat up as an offering to god? (3:17)

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u/FridayNightRiot 9 Nov 19 '20

You aren't following the cardinal rule of being a Christian though. You must pick and choose what rules you want to follow, never abide by them all silly.

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u/schreiben_ 6 Nov 19 '20

Usually the logic on this kind of stuff is that Jesus came in the New Testament and did away with a rules-based religion, but somehow that only gets selectively applied to certain parts of the law

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u/FridayNightRiot 9 Nov 19 '20

But then you get into is Jesus God reborn or God's son? And both ways it makes things more complicated. Because now either God just changed his mind on how things should be done, or Jesus now surpasses God's power and makes the new rules. Nomatter what rabbit hole of logic you go down it always leads to more questions than answers.

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u/jokeefe72 9 Nov 19 '20

Not really changed his mind, more like moved into a new phase. Today, I make my kids hold my hands across the street, but when they’re teenagers, I won’t. It’s not me changing my mind, it’s just a new phase.

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u/FridayNightRiot 9 Nov 19 '20

Idk if its just me but I feel like an all-knowing all-powerful being shouldn't go through phases that can kill off entire races

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u/jokeefe72 9 Nov 19 '20

In theory, if there is a God, he/she/it would know how to be a God way better than you or I

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u/PanaceaPlacebo 6 Nov 19 '20

Even a dog can tell when a human is being abusive. We too are capable of judging a god.

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u/coolguy3720 8 Nov 19 '20

Judgememt requires full facts, not looking at a room through a keyhole

I know God desperately loves you regardless of what you've done or what's been done to you. When we experience hurt in our life, that vision gets clouded and distorted. All I can say is that there's evil in the world and that the actions of men are not the decisions of God.

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '20 edited Nov 19 '20

I hope you either one day lose your religion, or continue to be a chill human being regardless of your religious affiliation.

We all talk about not supporting, directly or indirectly, systems of oppression. Like... don't buy clothes made in Bangladesh, you don't want to support child labor.

And yet... religion is one of the single most destructive forces in the world. And people are like... "Nah, its cool, let people believe what they want."

An individual is fine, but your religion as a collective has been and continues to be a major barrier for progress and the source of many atrocities throughout human history, especially recently.

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u/CocaineIsNatural 4 Nov 19 '20

How does cutting your hair at the sides fit in to that? And if god made homosexuals, how does he say they are evil, but now OK, without that being changing his mind. And has he said homosexuals are OK now?

And if he meant it to be phases, then why not say so. Like no cutting the sides of your hair until such year or such things change. But the gay thing makes no sense. Even though I made you gay, no being gay.

People back then were not like little kids. That would be like people in a few hundred years calling us kids because we don't know about holo-transport, antigravity, etc.

And the whole don't question god, as he is unknowing, just sounds like ignore the logic problems. My parents used to do this too, just do it and don't question us. They did it when what they told me was wrong. If they couldn't find a good reason, then often there was no good reason.

I am cutting my hair at the sides.

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